Re: Using *-iso10646-1 X11 fonts with Netscape 4.06

From: Donald Page (donaldp@sco.com)
Date: Fri Dec 11 1998 - 06:50:50 EST


Hi Markus,

You can't do it unfortunately. If you look at the Mozilla source you
will see that they have assumed that there are no ISO 10646-1 fonts
available on UNIX and patch together one based on the fonts they know ship
with standard X11.

        Donald

On Fri, 11 Dec 1998, Markus Kuhn wrote:

> I am using Netscape Communicator Version 4.06 [en] - 98225 under Linux 2.0
> and XFree86 3.2.
>
> I am looking at the UTF-8 test page
>
> http://www.macchiato.com/mark/unicode/UTF8List.htm
>
> I have correctly installed the Unicode font
>
> -misc-fixed-medium-r-semicondensed--13-120-75-75-c-60-iso10646-1
>
> as available from
>
> http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/download/ucs-fonts.tar.gz
>
> on my X server, but Communicator does not allow me to select this font
> (which has a much larger repertoire than the quite built-in
> "NSPseudoFonts" that Communicator offers me only as fonts for UTF-8).
>
> Does anyone here know, how I can bring Communicator 4.06 to use a proper
> normal X11 ISO 10646-1 font offered by the X11 server for displaying
> UTF-8 files, instead of these strange builtin fonts? Or is it a bug that
> Netscape Communicator does not offer me the *-iso10646-1 fonts offered
> by the server in the UTF-8 font menu?
>
> Markus
>
> --
> Markus G. Kuhn, Computer Laboratory, University of Cambridge, UK
> Email: mkuhn at acm.org, WWW: <http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/>
>
>



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